Dharmesh Shah writes about climate change #NGOs:
"It is a system that rewards endurance over resolution, legibility over disruption, and survival over success. To truly solve a problem would be professionally reckless. Far safer to manage it – responsibly, incrementally, and within a funding cycle.
"Philanthropy, for its part, rarely asks what must change. It asks what can be funded, measured, branded, and renewed. Movements are broken into projects. Resistance is translated into deliverables. Justice is recast as capacity-building.
"Frontline communities are not excluded from this process; they are curated. They appear as testimonials, case studies, and proof of authenticity. They are invited to speak – briefly – before decisions already made are reaffirmed. Their suffering becomes the moral raw material upon which entire organizational ecosystems depend."
